LOC.A.L ITEMS. O arch irwar*y ethodit....Rev. S. P. H. Uiwet. Neoond Sabbath in -eacbh konth at 10% o'elook A. N. Rev. Olin L. Durant, 84 Sabbath %t IA. K. Rtev. J' W. Daniel, 4th Babbatb at 8 1. V. Presbyterian-Rev. Hugh Meoees, at the Methodist Church, on 4h Babbath at 11 e'olook a. a Baptlt-Seoona Church, Rev. W.-. Single ton Pastor, 1st 8abbath sad Saturday before In each month at 11 oolook a. W. Liberty Chnroh-Liberty Station-Rev W B Singleti, Past or--Bervioes every 2d Sabbath and saturday before. Greenville has thirty six lawyers. We are soon to have two new stores in Pickens. Enterprise. Merchants, now is the time to ad vertise your Christmas goods. The 'weather has been extremely cold for several days. It is botter to give than to receive. This relates especially to advice and medicine.. One of our young Inon is extremely Bouthern in his sentiments. Senator Bradley departed for Co lumbia on Sunday last to attend tbe mossion of the General Assembly. Up to, and Including the ...

GOSSIP FOR THE LADIES. "in MIrps L4ve. I remomber Meeting you In se tember, Six1 --two. We were eating, Both of us ; And the ineeting Happened thus: Accidental, Onl the road (sentiuental Episode), I was gushing, You were shy; You were blushing so was I; I was smitten, So were you (All that's written Here is true); Any rnoney ? Not a bit. Itather fuiny, Wasn't it? Vows we plighted Happy pair I Ihow delightled People were! ]But your futjmr To be sure Thoutght it rather Premature And your moiher Strange to say Was auotlr In the way. What a heaven Vanished then (You were Peven, I was ten) I That was maany Years ago Don't let any Body kvow. Nr. wAaVttler on Woman Suffrage. Our writer and poet says:' " The so ciety of the future must be acted on more directly by women than that of the past. In the bringing out of the sensi bilities they must take a leading part. Woman suffrage I regard as an inevita ble thing and a good thing. Women in public life will bring it up more than it will bring ...

DEVOTED TO POLITICS, MORALITY, EDUCATION AND TO TWE GENERAL INTEREST 0F THE 00UNTRY. By D. F. BRADLEY & 00. PICKENS, S. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1880. VOL. X.-N , 11. TDE MNsICAL BOY. BY JAMES T. FIELDr I It is a ruthless, toothless wiglr. Who d welts beside a wall, And spends his time in singing songs As loud as he can bawl, And casting stones at passengers Who may neglect to call. Tho knave deals out inflated corn A nd other luff y things, Guin-balls, and niscellancous pie. And doughnuts shaped like rings; The pea-nut branch he also plies, As all day long he sings. o urchin rude, of manners crude, Of unangelic voice, Pray tell me true, young rufflan, do, If thus you live from choice, Or if in your unhallowed way Ytu really don'I rejoice. Your wares are insalubrious, Your carols are the same, Your bold career is fraught with fear, Your traffic one of shame A dark, mysterious, dreadful trade, A deed without a name. Boy, cease your harmful, dreary notes, And fing your goods away...

THE SENTINEL, D. F. BRADLEY, Editor. PICKENS 0. 1., S. C.: TEURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1880. TERIMS: For subscription, $1.50 per annum, for six months, 75 cents; strictly in advance. Advertisements inserted at one dollar per square of one inch or less for the first inser. ion and fifty cents for each subsequent in sertion. Liberal discount made to merchants and others advertising for six months or by the year. Obituary Notices and Tributes of Respect charged for as advertisements. Announcing Candidates five dollars, in advance. Editorial Correspondence. COLUMBIA, S. C., Nov. 20, 1880 Deur Sentinel: The two Houses met on Tuesday last, the 23d instant, and proceeded at once to effect an organization. After the organization and swearing in of the newly elected mombers, the Senate selected Senator Witherspoon, of York, as temporary presiding officer. Col. T. Stoho F'xrrow, of Spartanburg, was re-elected Clerk ; Col. A. D. Goodwin, of Orangeburg, was re-elected Reading Clerk, and Mr. L. It. Ma...

Church Directory. uethodist.-Rev. S. P. H. Elvell, soond Sabbath in each month at 104 o'clock A. M. Rev. Olin L. Durant, 8d Sabbath at11 A. K. Rev. J. W. Daniel, 4th Sabbath at 8 P. K. Presbyterian--Rev. Hugh McLees, at the Methodist Church, on 4th Sabbath at 11 o'clock, a. m. Baptist-Secons Church, Rev.W. B. Single ton Pastor, lt Sabbath and Saturday before In each month at 11 o'clock a. m. Liberty Church-Liberty Station-Rev W B Singleton, Pastor-ervoes every 2d Sabbath and Saturday before. How lovely is the face of him who wishes to pay his subscription. The communication of "Let Her Roll" is crowded out of this issue. It will appear in our next. The receipts of cotton up to the 23d iult. at Anderson were 11,690 bales. There are four colored Democratic members in the House of Ecpresen tatives. Mr. James H. Clay ton brought to this office last Saturday a pa, plo top turnip measuring 24 inches in circum, ference, and weighing five and one quarter pounds. If anybody can beat this for...

A Woman's -Dress. Bob Burdette in the course of an article in the Burlington Hawkeyc on the rights and wrongs of women, says: Our wife wants a dres. After two or three or half a dozen stores have been ransacked for goods, the dressmaker is sought out. The matter of measure ment is tedious, and then the matter of fitting is one of numerous and repeated trials. Finally the dress is finished and sent home. 'then it is sent back to be taken in here and let out there, and at last, after the customer has been fitted more times for that one dress than her husband has been measured for three or four years, the dress comes home for the last time and is pronounced by the wearer, her friends, and the dressmaker as a beautiful and perfect fit, and is fin ished. Beautiful it certainly is, far more beau tiful than anything her husband ever wears. Colors and material, style, blend ing shades and contrasting bits of color, are all in tho perfection of good taste. No man can imprQve upon that. But i...

DEVOTED TO Pod , 'KORALITY, EDUCATION AND TO THE 1NERAL INTEREsT OF THE 00UNTRY. By D. F. BRADLEY & 00. PIOKEN, So. C., T1UT1SDAY, 4DECEMBER 9, 1880. VOL. X.--NO, 12. Powerful Ocean Steamships. Twenty years ago the largest steamer known,(in this, as in all such comparisons neglecting the Great Eaatern, which ww aSproiigy of engineering skill) did no1 reac* 850 feet 14 length, 45 feet ir breadth, 3,500 tons in tonnage, or 4,00C horse-power indicated. We have before us at this moment a list of 50 merchani steamers sailing, in the year 1860, from Southampton and other southeirn ports which the largest vessels then frequentedl and the list includes but 10 ships of mor than 300 feet in length, none of which rsiched the limits of size and powor just given, aid the whole of which belonged to two eompanies, viz., the Royal Mail and the Peninsular- and Oriental. At the present moment we have afloat and at work the White Star liners, some of them of 445 feet in length, 45 feet in breadth,...

THE S7NTINEL .u F. BRADLEY. Editor. PICKENS C. II., S. C.: THURSDAY, .DCEMBER 9, 1880. For subhcript ion, S1.50 per annum, for six inonths, 75 cents; strictly in advance. Advertisements inserted at one dollar per square of one inch or less for the first inser, Ion and fifty cents for each subsequent. in riertion. Liberal discownt made to merchants and others advertising for six months or by the year. & Obit ary Notices and Tributes of Respect charged for as advertisements. Announcing Candidates five dollars, in advance. Editorial Correspondence. Coi,rmi A, S. C., Dec. 3, 1880. Pear Sentincl: The only evont of much interest that has transpired since the meeti, ot the (eneral As sombly was the innnratirrriion of Gov ornor Ilmngood. On Tuesday last. in the Hall of* the loust (A Representatives in the prese m-e of both bru n ches of the General Aseibly adl( a lar con COUrIse of citizeis, inlitlehii' he mem... bors of the S-'oprvyme Court and .,d. ges lnil nid Bryaii of the United St...

1MN FIRST CIGAR. 'Twas Just behind the woodshed, One glorious summer day, Far o'er the hills the sinking sun Pursued its westward way. And in my lone seclusion, Safely removed afar From all of earth's confusion, I smoked my Brst cigar. Ah I bright the boyish fancies Wrapped in the wreaths of blue; My eyes grew dim, my head was light, The woodaod round me flow. Dark night closed In around me, Rayless without a star. Grim death I thought had found me, And spoiled my rst cigar. Ali I pallid was my noble brow, The waning night was late, My startled mother cried, in fear, " My child, what have you ate?" I heard my father's smothered laugh, It seemed so strango and far, I know he know, I knew he knew I'd smoked my first cigar. A Story of a Screw. A singular accident happened to. a family named Hollscher, residing on Pearl street, near Market, a few days ago. The father died about a week ago, and was buried at Lone Mountain. On Saturday morning the mother visited the cemetery to decorate t...

DEVOTED TO POLITICS, MORALITY, EDUCATION AND TO THE GENERAL INTEREST OF THE COUNTRY. By D. F. BRADLEY .& 00. PICKENS, S. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1880. VOL. X.-NO, 13. Piano Playing Regulated by Law. The London Globe says: The author ities of Weimer are evidently a consider ate body. They have recently decreed that no person shall in any house within their jurisdiction play a piano while win dows in the house are open under a pen alty of two shillings. This is an appro prnate regulation for the headquarters of German literature. We have Professor Teufelsdrokh's authority for saying that Germany is deep-thinking-set up on high to tell the world what o'clock it is. Doubtless a great deal of this deep think ing is done in the streets, as the late Piesident Lincoln's was; and where the streets were mostly narrow, as they are in Wiemer, serious cogitation is apt to be much interfered with by the sound of the banging of pianos at every third or fourth house, who knows what magnifice...

THE SENTINEL. ID. 1. BRADLEY. Editor. PICKENS C. II., 8. C.: TERSDAT, DECEMBER 18, 1880. TERL1%S: Per subscription, $1.50 per annum, for six ftontb, 76 cents; strictly in advance. Advertisements inserted at one dollar per square of one Inch or less for the first inser, Ion and fifty cents for each subsequent in sertion. Liberal discount made to merchants and others advertising for six months or by the year. Obituary Notices and Tributes of Respect ebarged for as advertisements. Announcing Candidates five dollars, In advance. Editorial Correspondence. COLUMBrA, S. U., Dec. 10, 1880. Dear Sentinel: The legislative ma chinery seeme to be running smooth ly, and without some tremendous jar we will be ab'e to fin ish up our work and oat our Christmas tut key at home. This Legisluture seems to be more practical and less disposed to fritter away its time in buncoinbo speech making than its pred cessor; yet there are a few of its members who seem to be impressed with the idea that the intere...

Kissing. The Cinoinnati Times, in answering the question, " Is it wrong for a lady to kiss a gentleman when parting, after he has escorted her home in the evening?" says this is a question not devoid of dif AIculties, and we thereforo approach it with some degree of hesitancy. Kissing was originally a mode of salutation only, and in some countries, we believe, it is now restricted to that use. As such it expressQs reverence or worship. It is Common, also, in this country and else. where to kiss the hand in salutation. To express adoration, various parts of the body were and are kissed to distin guish the character of the adoration paid. Thus, to kiss the lips is to adore the living breath of the person saluted ; to kiss the feet or ground, is to humble oneself in adoration ; to kiss the gar ments, is to express veneration 'to what. ever belongs to or touches the person who wears them. There are, nowadays, various kiws of kisses, having various' meanings : "Tle kiss snatched hasty fr...

EIVOTED TO POLITIC8., XORALITY, EDUCATION AND TO THE GENERAS NEETOFTEUUTY BY' D.- F. BNADLEd & 00- PICKENS, S. C., THURSDAY. DECE BR2I80V "'TWAS TIM NIOUT BEFORE (sMf=Tr. BY EDGAR FAWCETT, With snow in pale volumes, by savage winds hurled The night before Christmas has wrapt the wu world; And now to its noises the little ones hark Where the nursery window looks forth on the dark. While weirdly against the black blank of the sky Those phantoms of snow-cloud pass hurrying by, The brains of the children shape forn after form From out the wan vapory whirl of the storm; IHuge lions that ramp - ighty horses that prance; white wallowing whales of prodigious expanse Till now they discern a stiange figure, whose back, is bent by the weight of a ponderous pack, And streharing in front of him, plainer than day, The beard of Kris Kringle like blown ocean spray I ,k Ab, happy Toting dreamers dream on as ye will I See merry St. Nicholas trudging to fill, Through harsh wintry gusts, with benev...

THE SENTINEL. D. F. BRADLEY, Editor. PICKENS C. HI., S. C.: THURSDAt DEEUMBER 23, 1880 TER~MS: For rubscription, $1.50 per annum, for six ionths, 75 cents; strictly in advance. Advertisements Inserted rt, one dollar per square of one inch or less for the first inser, ion and fifty cents for each subsequent in sertion. Liberal discount made to merchants and others advertising for [six months or by tbe year. Obituary Notices and Tributes of Respect charged for as advertisements. Announcing Candidates five dollars, in advance. Editorial Correspondence. COLUMBIA, S. C., Dec. 18, 1880. Dear Sentinct: The Legislature is progressing very rapidly with its work, and will adjourn on the 23d or 24th instant. A bill to prevent the cattle or other stock from North Carolina roaming into the Counties of Greonville, Pick ens and Spartanburg has passed both Houses. This is simply eiforcing a law ajaist, the North Carolinians that they enforce against us. A b 11 to prevent the salo of ardent spirit i...

LOCAL4 ITEM~fS. Churck Directory. Methodist.--Rev . P. H. Elell. semoad Sabbath in each month at 101 o'clock A. 3. Rev. Olin L. Durant, 8d sabbath at11 I I . Rev. J. W. Daniel, 4th Sabbath at 8 F. E. Presbyterian-Rev. Hugh MeLees, at the Methodist Church, on 4th Sabbath at 11 e'lock a. m Baptist-Secona Church, Rev. W. B. Single ton Pastor, 1st Sabbath and Saturday before In each month at 11 o'clock a. m. Liberty Church-Liberty Station-Rev W B Singleton, Pastor-&rvces every 2d Sabbath and Saturday before. Musio and muffins will care (?) the dyspepsia. Try them. A Christmas turkey in the hand is worth two in the bush, There is a young man in towu with . out any mustache, trying to hire a cook for next year. All dyspeptics should remain close in their rooms during Christmas; for the fun must not be spoiled. No PAPER NrXT WrEal.-Christmas comes to the printing office once a year. So we will fasre no paper next week. Last Sabbath the Sunday school and pWubli worship were frozen out c...

BOUND TO HAVE A GOOD DINNER. "Have you the heart to turn a cold gho4rgn, ualid poverty in Ohrist mas Uine, when all the bells are chim. ingfor jdy ; when little children caper in ppiness over toys, from which they will suck the paint and cry with the stomach ache to-morroW; when every heart is full of praise and gratitude, hilarity and sociability, purse-strings lax, and tables groaning with the fat of the land; have you got the hardihood, mum, to offer a poor unfortunate starv ing pilgrim cold mutton scraps, sour potatoes and stale bread, when the smell of turkey covers the whole house with a sweet odor, and cvery breeze that sails through the streets goes laden with the spicery of toothsome cookery ?" . "That's a precious sight betiter than you deserve," said the lady of the house, "and I hain't got nothing more for you. Eat it up and move on." "Can you expect that providence will continue to lavish upon you the bless ings of comfort and luxury, if you do not in a time like this o...

** DEVOTED TO POLITICS, MORALITY, EDUCATION AND TO TIE GENERAL INTEREsT OF THE 00UNTRY. By D. F. BRADLY & (0 PICKENS, S. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 6, 1881. VOL UNFINISHED BUSINESS. BY aNNMI JONES. All went well in our lodge that even ing, untilit wasannounced, "We will now take up the order of unfinished busi ness." Then there was a notable lack .of interest, and every one seemed busy in whispering to his neighbor, and what. ever was the subject of his conversation it was very evident tnat it did not per. tain to the "unfinished business" before the house. No one seemed to know just where the lodge had left off, or where it designed to begin; the circum stances had changed, and that which had once given interest to the subject was past, and in a measure forgotten. And I am quite certain that a great deal of the unfinished business will remain unfinished still, to the end of the chap * ter. In every turn in life it is the same. How much is begun but never finished I And it is not tha...

THE SENTINEL. D- P. BRADLEY, Editor. PICKCENS C. 11., S. C.: THURSDAY, 3At1ARY d, 1881. TEIRMf4: For eubsmcription, $1.50 per annum, for six months, 75 cents; strictly in advance. Advertisements inserted at one dollnr per square of one inch or less for the first Inser ion and fifty cents for each subsequent in sertion. Liberal discoiunt made to merchants and others advertising for (sit months or by the year. Obittary Notices and Tributes of Respect charged for as advertisements. Announcing Candidates five dollars, In advance. Stolbrand, who was buried under a majority of over 12,000 in this Con% giessional Dist rict, has served notice of contest on Col. Aiken.' le is evi, dently hunting a Inerativo position. A New Ccmptroller General. Hon. J. C. C(,it, Com troller Gen eral of the State, electuil at the last general et'leion, resigned b-eforo tle Leogislauiro ndjoumned, and lhat body electel (Gen. John Bratton to the po sitijon. Mr. Coit, Eat tlat Ile W ul have with(idrawi irmn the t...